Yeah. Like I wish he didn't because of all the toxic bullshit out there. But it seemed to make him happy, and he's still making millions to wrestle. So how much did it really hurt him other than there being a few embarrassing gifs?

It probably made him more happy before he was getting punched in the face a lot, but yeah. He tried to make a living outside of the toxic atmosphere of WWE while WWE was the only real game in town in the field he worked his whole life to excel in.

If he was getting blasted by jobbers, I can only imagine what the high-level guys he was training with did to him.

The one thing we can take from his fights is he can take some punishment. Although I don't think he was aiming for the Homer Simpson approach to fighting.

thats true today. it wouldnt be true 25 years ago

Absolutely. Go back another 10 years and it’s even more true.

Speaking of: The TPWW Thursday Night Watch-Along returns tonight!

:lol:

Punk wouldn’t have made it past Boxcar Fred, let alone Boxcar Ira.

921,000 viewers.

Classic Wrestling night is about to outdraw AEW

it IS tracy smothers appreciation night

Well, we actually have mainstream appeal--so it's an unfair comparison.

Can't wait for a night full of Tracy Smothers gyrations

The FBI were so fucking great. I've said this before but they are the best thing about late 97/early 98 ECW. Hands down.

Tommy Rich declaring the FBI the World 6 man Champions after beating the Freebirds lmao. His "too many headshots" gimmick was so fucking funny.

ok gertner i want to get back into my ecw watch. where should i jump in to get to what you'd consider the start of the good shit? i don't remember exactly where i left off. sometime in early 94 i think.

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Shitty wrestling draws shitty ratings. I’d say news at 6, but AEW fans would blame that for cutting into their number.

We doing that “this week last year” ratings comparison that’s been really important the past couple weeks now or nah?

Spring of 95

With ad rates probably being low for a show with its 18-49 demo and the content they air, it would really surprise me to see AEW renewed at this point. Which executive wants to be at the head of a network when the audience all has birthdays and you now don’t have any particular demo of interest?

WBD can get more out of airing Big Bang reruns than housing AEW. They’ve only got themselves to blame.

Good news though! They’re up in terms of viewership YoY! They got 889k last year. :lol:

Sorry, the schadenfreude is just too nice.

It’s basketball’s fault this year.

Lol Couldn’t think of any good bullshit after hyping the importance of YoY the past couple weeks. Beautiful.

Bury away.

It was important to AEW for 52 weeks, wonder what changed the last few weeks...

Watch from spring 95 till Barly Legal 97. It goes downhill fast after their first ppv. 98 and 99 are atrocious

I wonder if AJ has an opening for a real man on the side.

She seems to have a thing for missing teeth. Just sayin’…

You have to wait for them to hit a really disappointing low to do the YoY and gloat about growth. :lol:

Can’t wait for the preempted Dynamites to come along and be used comparatively.

Right, my bad :rofl:

You know the inverse of that argument requires an equivalent amount of mental gymnastics, right? LOVE YOU

I’m not making the inverse of that argument.

I presume #1-xrod-bitch is flexing to show off why he is the king of gym. :lol:

Nah. Just pointing out your blatant hypocrisy. You pretending to ignore me doesn’t cancel it out. No matter how much you desperately reply to my posts “without actually reading them” to try to force your own narrative. Keep landing on your face and fantasizing you’re killing it, buddy.

It's okay, Meltzer said that AEW is worth $400+ million a this point. If the mega merger does turn on AEW like it did WCW, AEW still has a lot of options. There are other networks that are hungry for AEW and content that hovers around a million viewers a week.

Since TNT was expecting AEW to cover the 700k mark, they likely aren't in "dire straights" with the current numbers they are getting. I personally know plenty of AD execs and TV rights lawyers and they are always messaging me that AEW is one of the hotter topics on the TV rights law forums and also the content demo forums, AEW a big hit there too.

Impact kept finding its way to TV despite getting worse and worse numbers. The idea that a new wrestling program with Tom’s of money behind it, regularly pulling around 1 million viewers a week, is somehow doing bad, and doesn’t have a future, it’s just silly.